the latest news in the week's top stories u.s. officials continue to deny mass hunger strike again. by more than one hundred detainees have reportedly been starving themselves for forty days. new yorkers revolt against the city's police department after n.y.p.d. officers gunned down a sixteen year old boy in a brooklyn neighborhood. the syrian two years since the bloody conflict began some european states to put weapons directly into the hands of rebels forming with islamist extremists. the handover of power in china is complete for the new leaders aiming to keep the economy and military investments growing as the u.s. continues to build its presence in the region the top stories this hour.

with a look back at the week's leading stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on a hunger strike at guantanamo bay is continuing to forty days with more than one hundred detainees reportedly starving themselves in protest of the desecration of the qur'an by prison guards lawyers for the captives claim the state of their health is close to life threatening but the u.s. military has strongly denied the crisis saying only fourteen detainees are refusing all food. reports u.s. president barack obama began his first term announcing his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now just two months into his second term the prison enters its twelfth year of operation with one hundred sixty six detainees still languishing behind bars and a reported one hundred thirty life through. being hunger strike their hunger

strikes are the only way they have of even making themselves heard years and years without any hope a release without any real charges this story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by mainstream media outlets lawyers for the good no prisoners say the men began the hunger strike on feb sixth to protest against the alleged confiscation of personal items such as photographs and mail and the sacrilegious handling of their car during cell searches the center for constitutional rights says they've received reports of detainees coughing up blood i'm losing consciousness dropping more than twenty pounds and being hospitalized by day forty five medical experts say hunger strike participants can experience hearing loss and potential blindness and that's in addition to the psychological suffering they've endured for more than a decade that context where we have individuals incarcerated

isolated from each other and they don't know if they're going to get out tomorrow or never and that sets up a circumstance for extreme a psychological stress it's really an abominable you know humanitarian situation where you're depriving these people of life liberty and for no really valid basis the director of public affairs for joint task force guantanamo captain robert duran released a statement to our teeth in it he denies all claims of a mass hunger strike or any mishandling of the koran duran says only fourteen detainees at the detention center are refusing all food. our understanding is that based on previous standards the determination of who is a hunger striker is a discretionary determination that one chinaman makes what those standards are what

the criteria are are questions that they need to be at you know how are they defining hunger striker and when are they just terminating that someone needs to be to that and if it is if the definition of hunger striker is entirely in their control and it is a matter of their discretion then i that explains how they are able to say that there are no more than a handful of men on hunger strike lawyers representing get more prisoners have sent a letter to us defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help and the protest in the meantime organizations like the red cross have made attempts to check on the inmates welfare here's what a representative told r.t. the current tensions in guantanamo as far as we can see and as far as we understand are really the result of the uncertainty is made to detainees in guantanamo the uncertainty linked to defeat what's going to happen to them you know there is a lack of clear legal framework for detention many of them don't know most of them

don't know what's going to open and so has been our position and there needs to be a clear legal framework and a transparent process into the procedural safeguards for those detainees and it's to be transparent and fair to alleviate the strains of really that emotional mental strain that distance certainty triggers for the detainees of the one hundred sixty sixty teenie zakk one ton i'm obey eighty six have been cleared for release now this week the un said that the u.s. is a violating international human rights law by indefinitely holding prisoners at guantanamo without charge the human rights council is urging washington to quote bring an end to these illegal practices by either process. killing prisoners in civilian court or releasing that reporting from new york marina point i am heartsick. and we can now talk to us army veteran brenda nearly a full my god i'm obey right to you with what i have

a ten years ago how the detainees treated during your time at the center. you know we were told before we actually got to want to animal that the geneva convention would not be held. i would say when they first arrived there when he will now go walk around in their cells or cages as i call among the dead they were allowed to pray they were allowed to do nothing and when the international red cross came also some of the constraints you know loosened up and they were able to talk and stuff but you know that they were treated horrible you know they were they were abused by you know by us guards when it came to the inter reaction force team into it was just mistreated all around especially at the beginning it is did you did you take a lot in that abuse did you take pull out yourself. yeah i've always been very open and i was actually involved in the very first incident that ever took place a guantanamo detainee you know the older detainee trying to jerk away from us and i slam the face for person to the ground and held his face to the concrete and to the

interaction for simple to solve yeah i've always been very open i was involved in that incident and i witnessed more more after that you know not because if i did but with you know i want to party and i would spoke up a lot sooner than i did. do you think the detainees are treated any differently today as just to remind you of that over ten years ago has anything changed. i think from the outside looking in a strange as far as the p.r. the way the government tries to spin it because the facility is a lot better but speed guards of been there over the last few years all the dream inside it for is the internal reaction force team and the way the koran is treated in a stuff like that not much has changed maybe the outside is changed but inside hasn't changed too much to do what surprised you that these detainees are going on hunger strike and now threatening their own lives. oh not at all it's been eleven years will all these guys you know are people forget that half these people have been cleared for release by not only the obama administration but also by the bush administration all the sad part in all this is you know. it's really not covered in

the mainstream media b.l.s. these detainees do go on hunger strike so this is the really their only way to protest you know just think about you know they just found out the obama administration got rid of the only office that was attempting to close guantanamo i just publicly announce it you know there's no there's there's no in the works to this in the heat of the robbery in these people are cleared for release so this is there for protests and this is the only way they're getting any kind of media attention into guantanamo which is a sad war and the problem is that it's not just to ask if they all release would they not just be moved on to another detention center would it make any difference to their future play off because a lot more cleared for release up if they want to be sent to to other countries like some of the. these. were cleared to sit either back home or about rates or since another closer to live the life of the fact is a lot of these people are sitting there in limbo they're cleared for release and they're going to be into definitely all through whom goes along they don't know when they're going to see their families again or where they're going to go i think

the fact that they don't know what's going to happen you know if that makes them and this is their only one form of protest they had this to go on for three and looking back at your time ned do you feel any regret remorse guilt is this why you old speaking out now about the conditions and what happened that yeah i'm out a lot or regret and remorse where it's a pardon on the fact is you know i never used the holes. or words i'm guilty of what i'm guilty of and the fact is the one who ever open a camp decided to open guantanamo knew from the get go and that it was wrong but it was it was illegally and it was a violation of human rights and the fact is it has to be closed i'll try to take something very negative in my life and try to turn it some positive in do some good and hopefully by coming forward by a lot of us to have king full order you know we put a lot of risk by coming forward that it does make a difference and hopefully the basically only going to be close allow these to go back home and the guilty one skin beach i mean when it was installed what that did

you think you are being had because this case in particular isn't really being covered by the mainstream media something you touched on a little bit earlier i mean what you have to say do you think people are listening . i think it depends i really believe if we had a republican president it would be a lot more in the mainstream media and you know it goes on tom if you're going to animal goes through flurries where it'll be rouhani anniversary they want to talk about it or if somebody dies they want to talk about it you know if we get into a lot of media it's going to win some public but it has kind of died down i think a lot of it is that government is very good at spinning to make it look like it's. probably not what is the alternative though i mean if you have terrorist suspects or people who are charged with atrocities is there an alternative to something like guantanamo bay it wasn't oh well the best place for it all no. no i you know i really believe want to analyze cream or true terrorists around the world and been we've gotten rid of the fact is that we help a lot innocent people there in fact is there are really guilty people there they need to be dealt with with a federal court system has been proven time and time over that we can try true

terrorists and since them so it's a whether it's you know by death or life in prison at supermax prison the fact is that the military commissions it is a kangaroo court lot of the stuff they've won over the federal court system are his rules intact for you know like they spent a whole week under a what will what's clear shaikh muhammad was he allowed to work camouflage you know the federal court system has rules of what you're allowed to wear not wear court system and it's a mockery it's the fact is the fact is they'll never bring him into a federal court system because a lot of the information they have gotten as mindy to have been have gotten out of the use of torture so they can it's a missile in federal court system well we dropped the ball we have a system here and we have the opportunity to show the world that arse still and our way of life actually works that we drop the ball in an unknown we've created more terrorists and enemies around the world than we could ever imagine right in the early life in texas u.s. army veteran and former guantanamo god thank you for joining us here on alt. well on our website at moment want to know your view on this issue every. way you can

tell us why you think want to put off to more than eleven years well perhaps you think the u.s. is to blame for not keeping its promise to close the facility maybe cuba should never have leased the base to the u.s. in the first place maybe blame other countries for refusing to repatriate detainees or indeed you may see the nine eleven terror attacks as the main reason. operational well you can head right now have your say and hear the results. the boss majority we can see that eighty percent blaming washington for failing to keep its pledge is almost equally small number eight percent. responsible for what is happening at guantanamo so if you haven't already done so. well coming up after the break police. protests over the killing of a brooklyn teenager n.y.p.d. angry clashes and arrests. and the chinese reshuffle the country complete.

transfer of power. beefing up their presence in the region all the details and other stories of the brain. science technology innovation. developments around. story. and realized.

today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. this is. in moscow we're getting news just in this police have reportedly used tear gas on protesters in cairo and arrested a number of activists close to the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood now this comes a day after cameraman working for the arabic channel received a head injury while trying to protect his camera from a gang of men with sticks and they were attacking a group of activists and journalists we'll bring you more details as soon as we get

them here on. the killing of a black teenager by the new york police calls public outrage and evoked week long protests in brooklyn activists chanted slogans accusing the n.y.p.d. of racism and cruelty clashes between demonstrators nor enforcement officials resulted in dozens of arrests. the story. sixteen year old kimani gray was killed by police shot four times in the front and three in the back the n.y.p.d. claimed the team had pointed a gun at them however this remains uncertain that there was a weapon that no one saw and not his friends his family didn't know he had a weapon and there were a lot of witnesses outside who were able to see it that this individual discharged a weapon on him as these candles burn in memory of yet another killed youth an entire community rises up night after night to demand justice and an end to police

brutality for three nights in a row peaceful vigils turned chaotic clashes broke out. leaving one officer hospitalized after reportedly being injured with a brick a total of forty six arrests were made wednesday yes. but no violence erupted thursday night tensions however still ran high. i mean this is no different than it was. you know so it's like it's like another country a lot of people are just tired of the period with solutions to stop the violence nowhere in sight deeply seated issues between the police and the community remain unaddressed leaving many worried children parents and children the absolutely honest part new york. bloodshed civil strife and devastation the state of syria two years after its conflict began the war between the government and rebels acing seventy thousand people killed and millions fleeing their homes creating

a humanitarian disaster and while diplomatic efforts to bring peace of all failed many say that foreign countries are fanning the flames with plans to send more weapons parties griffen osha reports this part of syria known as mesopotamia between the tigris and euphrates rivers is considered a cradle of civilization has been home to many ask nic and religious groups living in peace and harmony for ages people here believe this diversity is serious strong point but some warn it could also be used against the country and that's something to destroy. and the regime slogans in syria have been repeated to the longest arab spring countries but assad didn't step down the weeks like the leaders of to measure and egypt nor did his regime fall over the months like colonel gadhafi to leave the. opposing sides have gone beyond demonstrations and clashes killing us have become an every day reality of those wanting

a son to go both at home and abroad have decided to target what hurt the most serious diversity pitting people against each other after every massacre and every killing rivers of blood have been joined by streams of mutual accusations and hatred. the first blow was dealt to relations between the country's sunni majority and the ruling she had minority some more ignorant position and sometimes. it was never to make a city and it's not a move in once that one again. we should keep our unity in all of all of. it gabriel a poise from commercially livin in syria's north east all green sunni dominated turkey and mostly shia iraq says here in about six tarion intolerance is something new for syria and very alarming. will feel this pressure for months now

especially from gulf countries trying to drag us to this perilous share soon again it's a big threat because a to society from the inside. and some say it's been few from the outside it is part of the us strategy and some of the western strategy is to destroy syria by syrians and by arabs and this they are doing successfully another blow followed was an explosion at a palestinian refugee camps in syria and the cold blooded murder of palestinian conscripts these drove the wedge between the two arab peoples previously on friendly terms they wanted to both weaken the regime and spread despair among palestinians. with kurdish villages in syria's north east targeted the kurdish syrian peaceful co-existence has also been endangered but a crowd its approval cations appear in very dangerous more syrian kurds want to be integrated into syrian society have rights and be respected some turkish kurds

maybe do as murder one is killing his own people we've never been treated like that of course when violence targets us it can't not affect relations. and fears are that those who wanted to see the fall of the regime witness the country's fall instead. from syria. the overwhelming majority of folks in and has voted yes to being british and a referendum on monday argentina which claims the hugh kaye has stolen the islands labelled the poll a fuss but london was quick to capitalise on what is or is to respect the people's will something the u.k. government has failed to do elsewhere sarah for thinks planes. this is the story of an island a proud and spirited people displaced i think government he put it devastatingly high price paradise soaking in the many it will be the first time the stories of it

being her. memory of the happiness that we were moving to each other and the way when been treating here we discover a moment where we had to go see it's a british colony in the indian nation and the largest of the chaika silence as a population of a freaky thousand people about the same as the oakland. good memories. there you go it's a home a real paradise today they da gusty is one of america's biggest military advices because we it's our land. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this because they are enjoying the island. we are suffering back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it is shrouded in secrecy bush cynically to learn the islands to the us but

there was a problem the island had for generations been inhabited by the chikezie and people they'd built schools hospitals a whole life and what did the british government they simply pretended none of this existed by fixing the entire population from their homes secrets lies deception dishonesty always rooted in facts in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. britain went to war protecting the folks and islanders from argentina in training first sums of money and costing precious lives the exact same time it was also using expensive resources preventing the people of the taiko silence from attending the falkland living in the homeland and they have a choice to stay where they they wanted to stay under. the rule of the british or if they wanted to go to the folk. time rules they have

a say and we don't have the see it. give me the impression that there's not just this event the british government is the one like you every now and then you hear in the news talking about human rights justice social justice and so on that day i don't want that money the justice the cica seeing community have been fighting for their right to return to the islands ever since they winning some of their cool cases pushed. government had continually appealed blocking their progress every step of the way how differently that people have been treated there's been a government balloting on knocking on doors on their behalf or asking what they want the h. word comes to my mind age four for how long are you going to punish us for how long we're going to live this life we don't want to be here we don't

want this life we want to go back home. where we belong. perhaps the most shocking thing about this story if this isn't simply something that happened decades ago this past injustices have been compounded by successive british governments right up to the coalition of today he continued to fight against returning to their island and so their stories remain largely to the. people continue to bravely fight to return to their homes. more stories for you right now in. our website and all the time it's not about the money. the russian passport holder says his move was not about escaping taxes because his homeland to become too sad for him also on. drastic measures

leading animal welfare group says it will use drones to stop illegal hunting in britain and more about the upcoming war in the countryside. dot com. the separate government suspended debate on a bank deposit levy that has sparked mass demand for all the positive to hand over up to ten percent of the savings was in force by eurozone finance ministers as a condition for a much needed ten billion euro bailout dr helen somebody from the leading british think tank the british group told me a little earlier that she believes despite the delay the savers will still have to cough up. they will have to try and make it go ahead because the really do desperately need the bailout money unless of course they do the alternative which is actually drop out of the euro and probably default at some point which will not

necessarily be the worst thing that can happen but that doesn't seem to appeal to any of the governments in question i mean we've had this problem with greece and we've had this problem with other countries that is how it's all been going on about the about the bailouts the way things have gone we see greece is that you know these these bailouts happen they try to introduce a stare it never works and then after a while there is another request for another bailout. or whether it will actually work or whether cyprus will do erupt into riots is something we shall see in the next few days. china's new president has called for what he described as efforts to continue the realisation of the chinese dream he was giving his first comments after the nation went through a once in a decade shift of power this week economic development will be the top priority for the country's new leaders and recent forecasts look promising a report from pricewaterhouse coopers predicts that china which is now the world's second largest economy will catch up with the u.s.

by twenty seventeen and then over take it one of the top spending priorities announced by the new leadership is defense comes amid america's growing military expansion in china's backyard u.s. efforts to gain a stronger foothold in asia in the struggle for regional influence has been raising concerns in beijing just days ago the pentagon announced a decision to put fourteen more missile interceptors along america's west coast and deploy a radar tracking system in japan they say it's in response to north korean nuclear threat but according to professor joseph chang at hong kong city university the future balance of power in the region will be defined by the amount of money countries spend on the military. factor time aims to become a major power and be you know position to be found is territories and it's offers overseas interests are it will continue to spend that kind of rate of increase

doubt any substantial jump in military expenditure i suspect in fact the time is to forty's probably understand that the american military spending is very much limited by the fact that. the obama administration has to cut its military budget because of financial difficulties. that's a brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with the news team in just half an hour from now is a question for you how do you think it's fair if you fend off a siberian train in minus forty wearing almost nothing at all well that happened to validate he managed to survive this chilling experience his story is up next.

for some people the extreme cold is the chilling threat to life for women of this it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in the rates in my body feels really warm now this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to make themselves stronger you can't get used to the cold it will but you can tolerate it.